These days, the Comic Market (or Comiket) isn’t just the world’s largest doujinshi fair anymore. The biannual conventions have grown so big – over 590,000 attendees for Comiket 84 – that they’re a bona fide platform for creators.
Regardless if these creators are amateurs or professionals, the Comic Market is a great way to get their excellent work out to the public without having to sell their souls to a corporate publisher (where you’ll have to work as part of a team), or going the route of digital distribution (cos, you know, an art book and a folder of images on your computer are not the same thing).
That can be quite appealing to even the most successful illustrations and anime producers. Take, for instance, Magi’s character designer and animation director Toshifumi Akai, who made copies on an art book he had been working on all by himself, and brought them to Comiket 84 to sell.
Akai shared some illustration samples from the aforementioned self-published art book on his Twitter account. Pretty neat stuff, huh?
Other images Akai previously shared on Twitter:
Source: @akaiakai1 via Crunchyroll News
Magi character designer Toshifumi Akai tweets samples from C84 art book
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